Chapter 1
Politics: Who Gets What, and How?
Resources: assets that can be be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively
Power: ability to get others to do what you want them to do
Politics: “who gets what, when, and how?”
Government: a system for exercising control over a body of people
Institutions: structures of mechanisms of social order that govern the behavior of a specific set of individuals
Ex. schools, hospitals, prisons, religion, marriages
Rules: set…
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